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    Posted: January 18 2008 at 10:53
A basic idea.

What is you favourite song at the moment, and why?

It would also be really great if you gave your opinion about other favourites, it might make this thread (more) interesting!

Mine's Pilgrims - Van Der Graaf Generator

The progression is just perfect, the tune is fantastic and catchy and Hamill's voice is just... REALLY REALLY REALLY GOOD.

oh and for further posts, it's in prog.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 11:03
in prog? or also "not prog"?

Not prog- Current 93- Lucifer Over London- Because we have in Poland a concert of David Tibet soon and i'm really excited.

Prog... - hmmm...IQ- Never wil- becouse i love chorus of this song
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 11:10
King Crimson - Fracture

because of Fripp's guitar and the intensity of the song.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 11:18
Prog - Harmonium - Depuis l'Automne, because I miss listenning to nice french lyrics with excellent music
Not Prog - Anouar Brahem - Thimar, because the melodies are enchanting
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 11:53
Chris Squire's "Safe (Canon Song)" because it is what I am listening to right now.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 12:08
Porcupine Tree-Nine Cats

The definite high point in what is a very varied and erratic album.
Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 12:40
I just bought Sweet Smoke - Darkness to Light and Just a Poke and I really adore the first track on Just a Poke, "Baby Night" because of the alternating jazz and symphonic sounds created.  In fact the whole album is superb, an excellent purchase, I'd say.

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http://www.last.fm/group/Progressive+Folk
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 12:42
Hard to choose. Indeed I quote 3 songs:
 
1. Barclay James Harvest: "Child of he Universe" (all versions):
Magical song. Probably the song Prog more difficult to build. It is a simple example of Rock with a great feeling. Heavy the arrangements that transforms this song in a great example of Symphonic Prog!
 
2. Atomic Rooster: "Death Walks Behind You":
We are on the birth of Death / Black Metal. Incredible song for the 1970. But still today very extreme!
 
3. Rainbow: "Kill The King" (live from "On Stage"):
Certainly Rush have invented the Prog Metal. But it is also true that if we talk about today Symphonic/ Power Metal we owe it to Rainbow. "Kill The King" is at the same time Prog Metal and Symphonic/ Power Metal. Of course other Rainbow's songs are more magical. But "Kill The King" is more important.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 12:54
"The Machine" - the Pax Cecilia. this song just rocks. plain and simple. the guitar's insane rythmic riffage and the awesome beat the drummer offers up add to the insane energy this song gives off. i love it. reminds me of the dillinger escape plan if they... were... a... post ... band... kinda weird. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:09
Twin Age - Twelve feet tall, great band grea piece. from Lialim high - 1997 Among the best neo-prog albums, much better than many praised albums from this genre.
Fruupp - Crystal brook from The prince of heaven's eyes - 1974, great piece great album, very underrated band, to me among the best from the '70's, they desearve much more attention Fruupp - Mistery might - Modern masquerade - 1975, again super, recommended band.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:18
Van der Graaf Generator- A Plague of Lighthouse Keeper's

It's just such an intense, cathartic song and it goes through so many styles. The musicianship is great and so is Peter Hammill's voice. As much as I love their other songs, I think this is the masterpiece.
It's also great when you're around people that like pop music and they say "all right, you can pick one song", not knowing that 23 minute epics exist.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:20
Right now it has to be "Last Song" by MOVING GELATINE PLATES.It's a 15 minute ride with other-worldly drumming on it.Sax,organ and guitar is outstanding as well.
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:36
Pax Cecilia - The Tragedy

Very interesting concept. I find the singer to be like STeve Wilson...can't really sing but a very nice voice. The piano is doing some strange melodic shapes too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 14:36
Schizoid Man conquers all, but if we remove the favourite concept, I'm seriously getting into Uriah Heep's 'Look At Yourself' and Focus' 'Birth'.

Look At Yourself is there because it's extremely catchy, has Byron's amazing voice and hard rock with organ, which is always nice.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 14:38
At the moment, it would be Symphony X's The Odyssey.
 
A pure prog-metal magnum opus, extremely well written an played.
 
 
"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 14:52
The Ikon by Todd Rundgren's Utopia ..30 minutes of greatness

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 15:09
    Edgar Froese - Stuntman - 1979
                             "Drunken Mozart in the Desert"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 15:14
  1. "Solar Winds" off of Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient
  2. "Into Thin Air" off of Glass Hammer's Culture of Ascent
  3. "A Sky about to Rain" off of Anekdoten's A Time of Day
  4. "Never the Same" off of Echolyn's As the World
  5. "The Door" off of Neal Morse's Sola Scriptura

As for why I am loving all of these songs at the moment, these are all recently purchased albums which I have really been enjoying and these are the standout songs on those albums.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 18:44
Afterimage By Rush, the lyrics are amazing to me
Transfigure by Jesu, this song just gives me chills every time i listen to it, i don't know why
Grinning mouths by ISIS, WHAT AN EPIC SONG BY ONE OF THE TOP NOTCH POST METAL BANDS
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 22:31
caravan's 9 feet underground and can't be long now

Jacob Van Lennepkade II by Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Gong's Master builder

and non prog would be

Most Devendra Banhart songs


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